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Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A moment of silence for our fallen audiophile comrades

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why? Samsung owns Harman and puts out quality equipment. The Samsung Galaxy Pro2 buds are arguably some of the best sounding earbuds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It says Sound by AKG, how much engineering, how much marketing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

AKG was bought by Harman, which Samsung owns, and they're still putting out products. My point is just that I'm not immediately pessimistic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

As far as I am aware, AKG hasn't done anything meaningful since the Samsung buyout. What they HAVE done is move most, if not all, all their headphone manufacturing to Asia from Europe. I really hope we don't see Denon's higher headphones killed off.